While usually considered as a last resort, there have been many well-documented cases of divine interventions that scientists and atheists still struggle to explain. “Sometimes we have cases that you could call exceptional, but that’s not enough,” explains Dr. Ennio Ensoli, who is in the business of determining whether a divine intervention has taken place and whether someone should be named a saint. “Exceptional doesn’t mean inexplicable.”

Janice Bender was told she had months to live, as the metastatic lung cancer spread throughout her frail body. A medical intervention like liquid morphine and chemotherapy seemed her only hope, but even those options had doctors shaking their heads, telling Janice’s husband, Frank, that he had better prepare for the worst. So Frank quit his job as a sculptor, yet he did finish one task: resculpting the mask that lay over St. John Neumann’s face at his public shrine in Philadelphia.

Father Kevin Moley came from the Church to see Janice and before leaving he placed a relic of St. John Neumann up to her forehead and said a prayer. Instantly, Janice felt a warm, soft feeling expand inside of her and over the next few weeks, dozens of tests confirmed the inexplicable: the cancer had completely disappeared! While they aren’t particularly religious people, the Benders attribute the miracle to the divine intervention of Saint John Neumann. “Maybe St. John Neumann wanted this intercession as a gift to him,” Moley said, commenting that the new face Frank sculpted was “perfect.”

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